Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate
CHAPTER VII.
The War Begins.--Struggles to Renounce Opium.--Physical Phenomena Observed in attempting to Leave Off the Drug.--Difficulty in Abjuring the Fiend.--I Fail Absolutely.--Some Difference with De Quincey regarding the Effects of Opium.--A Preliminary Foresight into the Horrors of Opium 61